while the informal sector suffered initially from demonetisation, all indicators, such as two-wheeler sales and demand for MGNREGA work, had returned to normal. It found that while the number of income tax returns had increased sharply, the average... Read more

the border district.
“In the meantime, we have started a project at district level for construction of 100 bunkers under MGNREGA. A total of 70 locations have been finalised and construction works have started there since July 20. We intend to... Read more

According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), wage delays and compensation for the delay has to be calculated till wages are deposited in the bank account of workers, however, activists alleged that the Centre in its... Read more

Researchers claimed on Friday that the compensation under MGNREGA was delayed either by the Centre or the state governments in almost half of the 92 lakh cases it studied.
The outcomes of an ongoing study were shared at a press conference called... Read more

in the country. Of these, 593,615 are inhabited.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA)–India’s labour law that guarantees 100 days of wage employment to rural households–considers villages and their... Read more

Ram Kripal Yadav said that the Ministry has been taken steps like giving additional 50 days of unskilled employment under MGNREGA to drought affected areas.
During 2016-17, seven drought affected States were allowed 150 days of work under... Read more

Nearly nine crore Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) card holders have been linked to Aadhaar and over five crore of them have their UID numbers linked to bank accounts, the government said in the Rajya Sabha on... Read more

that the rules were being followed.
Responding to related queries, he said there had been an increase in the wages under MGNREGA over the years. He said the participation of women under the scheme was up to 56 per cent and of the weaker sections... Read more

NEW DELHI: Over 5.69 crore households had sought employment under the MGNREGA scheme in 2016-17 and 5.12 crore of them were provided work, the government said today.
The figures were provided by Rural Development minister Narendra Singh Tomar during... Read more

account. The women working in the project are being paid from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) fund.
Once the earning from the garbage increase, the project that is now externally funded will become... Read more

Centre to foot 90% of the funding for these schemes while he desires full funding by the Centre of a few schemes such as MGNREGA and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
The CM’s case has been that without this special assistance, Bihar is unable to rise out... Read more

need to send proposals which the Centre may fund, he said.
Asked how the government was focussing on meeting drinking water requirements of the future, the minister said that even under MGNREGA, the focus was on water conserv... Read more

and focused government schemes to increase female employment is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), where one-third of the jobs are set aside for women. Outside government, one successful programme in the... Read more

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Aadhaar: Why trusting the State with protecting data is no big dealwith state welfare schemes is the idea, then it is best to know that last perso

with state welfare schemes is the idea, then it is best to know that last person better and everyone else along the way. MGNREGA payments, pensions, social benefit amounts, subsidies are now directly paid into bank accounts of the beneficiaries,... Read more

and services from government schemes. Further, the court has limited the use of Aadhaar to specific schemes: LPG, PDS, MGNREGA, National Social Assistance Programme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna and EPFO.
The real spanner in the works in... Read more

that the social audit machinery postulated by section 28 of the NFS Act and which is already in place in so far as the MGNREGA Act is concerned is established at the earliest with appropriate modifications...," the bench said.
In its verdict,... Read more

across the world have various forms of job guarantee schemes. India too has had such schemes running for a long time. MGNREGA is not the first, nor the last such scheme. The first such scheme was started in Maharashtra in 1972 under the name... Read more

panel of almost 20 experts to suggest ways and means through which data, particularly one which can be accessed through the MGNREGA-DBT platform can be encrypted.
Encryption, officials believe, would prevent the Aadhaar data and other related... Read more